Conservation reserves and community reserves in India are terms denoting protected
areas of India which typically act as buffer zones to or connectors and migration
corridors between established national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and reserved and
protected forests of India. Such areas are designated as conservation areas if they
are uninhabited and completely owned by the Government of India but used for
subsistence by communities, and community areas if part of the lands are privately
owned. Administration of such reserves would be through local people and local
agencies like the gram panchayat, as in the case of communal forests.